I said essentially the same over at the Gizmodo/io9 review of this.

Exactly this. I’m not mad its being made, and nothing in the article is wrong, but the whole thing seems completely unnecessary. Like a videogame adaptation of the Godfather.

I wish they had to foresight to imagine this as a trilogy, and just name this one Air. Followed by Land and then Sea.

These days, you probably shouldn’t even joke about physical violence at an award show.

“After viewers took to social media to express their dismay at honorees’ speeches being cut short”

You know, I appreciate a writer willing to review a movie on its own dumb level and grade it as such. Nicely done, Jordan!

This is the internet’s oldest debate, but it’s so weird to see a professional actor actually take a strong position like this. The standard response is something like “They’d both be really cool!” with a barely concealed subtext of “Whoever wants to hire me, man.” And if they did dismiss the idea, it usually comes…

Seriously. They should be discussing the miracle of them getting a second season, never mind a third.

Oh, was there a reason besides it being disastrous garbage?

The whole “Nepo Baby” discourse around celebs strikes me as a distillation of American attitudes about everything: “There’s something that’s been happening for a long time in a very visible forum, and I don’t like it!...But don’t you dare apply the argument I’m making to anything about to my own life! Those…

I’m not exactly sure why the media/internet hive mind has decided to focus on nepotism but huge numbers of people follow in the same field as their parents. The number of plumbers, electricians, home/septic inspectors, shop owners, attorneys, etc. that I know who got their start in the family business is huge. 

This season felt like it was pretty aimless, until it came full circle in the end. Still, the cast is great and I’m fine with watching them even in a slightly aimless season like this one. I hope Uncle Jack and The Waiter stick around next season.

lmao @ the conclusion of the Ian and Poppy arc making almost the entire season completely pointless. the Dana stuff was promising though

Considering the 9.1 rating Sherlock has on IMDB I am trying not to just sound like a contrarian by pointing out that the show is actually pretty bad. Not to take one low-point and make it stand in (the unbelievably hackneyed “Sherlock is the real menace to society” storyline could as well...it wasn’t exactly “In a…

I miss hundreds of comments per episode of anything

I kinda miss the days when recaps had a little more substance and thought to them than just rehashing the beat-by-beat events of the episode we all just watched. I guess it’s an easy way to hit the required word count for these articles though...

Cruise seems to get a lot of shit for not fitting the physical description of Reacher, but like Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest (Nicholson was indeed, not a giant read head) I think the idea was that the star power took the place of those characteristics.

Now there’s a series that people seem to genuinely…

we need more articles based on the gripes of the sound crew and the production manager, I tells ya

Well, I give them immense props for picking a part of Poe’s life (his brief stint at West Point) that I’ve never seen actually covered by a movie. So much of his portrayal in pop culture is just a brooding moody guy deep in his cups, in part inspired by an untrue obituary written by a rival who managed to almost…

Lucas and Fielding sort of have the same comedic energy, one that doesn’t tend to build on one another the same way Mel and Sue (MEL AND SUE!!!) did, or even Noel and Sandi. They need somebody with a bit more warmth on the show.